Rishi Navani is a Vice President at WestBridge Capital Partners based in Silicon Valley. Prior to joining WestBridge, Rishi was a member of the IT/Communications investment team at Patricof & Co. Ventures Inc., US member of Apax Partners, a leading global venture capital fund with $12 billion under management. At Patricof based in New York, he executed early stage investments in software, wireless, and networking equipment companies. Previously he worked at IndAsia/Indocean Ventures, an affiliate of Soros Fund Management and Chase Capital Partners in Bombay. He has also worked at McKinsey & Co. in New York and A.T. Kearney in Chicago.

Rishi holds a BA with Distinction in Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences and Economics from Northwestern University. He was nominated to Phi Beta Kappa. He also holds an MBA with Distinction from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where he graduated as a Palmer Scholar. He received the Ford Fellowship Award, which is given to the #1 ranked first-year student at Wharton.